Create a Shim

How to Create a Shim to allow a user in Win7 to run a program that ordinarily requires admin credentials to run

This guide is for creating a shim using Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit

1. Launch Compatibility Administrator
2. Right click the New Database under Custom Databases and select Create New > Application Fix...
3. Enter the following values in the Create new Application Fix window and then click Next twice.
4. Under the Compatibility Fix window select RunasAdmin and RunasInvoker and then click Next and Finish.

This will create a database containing your compatibility fix. To test it right click the database and select Install.
Shims are saved as a .sdb file.